Improvement in fabrics for wrapping and packing



UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE.

JAMES ALFRED TURNER, OF MANCHESTER, GREAT BRITAIN,

IMPROVEMENT IN FABRICS FOR WRAPPING AND PACKING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 130,340, dated August 6,1872.

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I, JAMES ALFRED TURNER, of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, have invented Improvements in Packing Material, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to a compound packing material, consisting of a combination of canvas or cotton cloth or woven fabric with brown or other paper and an adhesive waterproof or water-repellent material or mixture. The adhesive water-repellent material or mixture is spread on one side or surface only of the paper, and then, while the material or mixture is in an adhesive state, the cloth or' woven fabric is pressed into close contact therewith, the object being to confine the material or mixture between the paper and the cloth, and to keep both surfaces of the compound packing material thus produced quite clean and free from any adhesive or other matter.

In the ordinary process of manufacturing such packing material, when a combination of woven fabric and paper has been used, it has been the general practice to pass the woven fabric through a trough containing the water-proof material or mixture, and then to press the paper into contact with one or both sides of the same, the consequence being that if only one side was coated with paper the other side was sticky and liable to injure the goods; and if both sides were coated, then the material was not sufficiently flexible, and was liable to crack in bending,

My improved compound fabric is first pre pared by coating one side of the paper with oxidized oil or pitch, caoutchouc, or other adhesive water-repellent material or mixture by passing it over and in contact with a cylinder or roller, the lower circumference of which revolves in a trough containing the said material or mixture, and then smoothing the surface by means of a series of doctors or scrapers, or in any other suitable manner. The prepared paper is then pressed into contact with canvas, or cotton-cloth, or woven fabric by passing between rollers or otherwise, and the two are thus caused to adhere together, while both sides of the compound packing material thus produced are left perfectly clean and quite free from the oil or other ingredient used, at the same time that the material is very flexible and not liable to crack,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in" the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES ALFRED TURNER.

Witnesses GEORGE DAVIES, JOHN HUGHES. 

